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>Many times I see people asking how to do some simple tasks (myself included) and they get as a reply "See class...". I've got to many classes (great ones!), and usually they perform lots of related functions to the subject in question (and not only the asked one), and I get confused (scared) when trying to understand in those big codes what I was trying to look for. Many times I isolate into a small prg function just the code I need.

IMHO, studying code written by other people is the best way to learn programming. If it's good code you learn how to program. If it's not good than you learn how not to program. If code scares you maybe you should consider another occupation? < G,D&R >

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>Somebody once told me: "Don't try to understand, just use it.". Sorry, but when it's VFP code, the tool I use, I can't use something without trying to understand how it works.

I think it's bad advise. I would never use a class/code if I don'y understand how it works. However there're programmers that're only interested in the result and don't care how it's achieved.

Shouldn't be easier for the person who's asking something to have the fundamentals told to him, in order that he/she can understand all parts involved?

There's no way to know from the post how much info asking person required to understand the answer. Thet's why there is Reply button at the buttom of the message that he/she can use to ask additional questions if something isn't clear.

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>How can people improve their knowledge without understanding from simple tasks to the complex ones? Am I being too stupid thinking so? That shouldn't be a modern developer's way of thinking?